The 

Student  Christian  Movement 
and  a  New  Christian  World 

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THE  STUDENT  CHRISTIAN  MOVE¬ 
MENT  AND  A  NEW  CHRISTIAN 

WORLD 

A  Survey  of  Progress  in  the  Work  of  the 
Student  Young  Men’s  Christian  Associations 
for  the  Year  1916-1917 

During  the  past  year  the  Student  Association  Move¬ 
ment  has  had  to  prove  itself  adaptable  to  times  of  uncer¬ 
tainty  and  confusion.  The  Mexican  crisis  came  upon  us 
a  year  ago  in  the  midst  of  most  of  the  summer  confer¬ 
ences  and  in  time  to  decimate  Northficld.  From  that  time, 
even  prior  to  the  actual  declaration  of  war  with  Germany 
in  April,  the  colleges,  far  more  than  any  other  section  of 
national  life,  were  drawn  upon  for  all  kinds  of  volun¬ 
tary  service — enlistments  in  Canadian  and  foreign  armies, 
national  service  in  the  army,  navy,  and  air,  as  well  as  for 
Red  Cross,  Belgian  and  Syrian  Relief,  and  Young  Men’s 
Christian  Association  work.  All  this  has  been  a  severe 
strain  upon  the  leadership  of  the  Student  Young  Men’s 
Christian  Associations,  for  a  larger  proportion  of  the 
Christian  leaders  have  responded  to  these  calls  than  of 
the  general  student  bodies.  Yet  the  situation  has  called 
for  an  even  more  vigorous  Christian  work  in  the  colleges, 
because  men  are  far  more  serious-minded  than  for¬ 
merly  and  more  open  to  conclusive  consideration  of  the 
claims  of  Christ  upon  their  lives.  The  following  pages 
will  show  that  the  movement  has  not  been  held  back  by 
either  the  confusion  or  loss  of  leadership;  it  has  not  been 
unblessed  by  the  Holy  Spirit  in  its  service  for  needy  col- 


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lege  men.  The  significance  of  such  work  among  college 
men  stands  out  in  unique  relief  to  any  one  who  retains 
his  sense  of  balanced  judgment  and  perspective.  These 
men  must  see  visions  now  and  be  trained  in  leadership 
now  if  a  new  world  is  to  be  builded  according  to  the  mind 
of  Christ. 

A  National  Movement 

The  movement  is  a  national  movement.  While  its 
usefulness  is  more  readily  appreciated  as  it  helps  tempted 
or  perplexed  individual  students,  or  aids  in  making  the 
life  of  a  campus  clean  and  brotherly,  it  has  a  unique  con¬ 
tribution  to  make  to  the  life  of  the  nation.  It  is  organ¬ 
ized  in  practically  all  of  the  leading  institutions  of  the 
United  States  and  Canada  and  includes  in  its  membership 
a  large  proportion  of  the  students  of  serious  purpose. 
The  final  test  of  its  usefulness  therefore  is  the  impact 
made  by  the  movement  in  its  corporate  life. 

The  past  year  has  seen  an  encouraging  development 
of  this  corporate  consciousness,  unity  and  service.  Na¬ 
tional  unity  is  always  a  difficult  thing  in  a  country  of 
such  vast  distances  and  such  keen  sectional  sympathies. 
It  is  cause  for  gratitude  therefore  that  the  movement  is 
coming  to  have  so  much  cohesion  and  united  vigor  with¬ 
out  sacrificing  the  individuality  and  spontaneity  of  differ¬ 
ent  units  and  sections.  During  the  past  year  several 
things  have  contributed  to  this,  such  as  the  interchange 
of  speakers  and  visitors  at  the  summer  conferences,  the 
increasing  influence  of  The  North  American  Student,  the 
wider  use  of  prayer  cycles,  the  remarkable  and  spon¬ 
taneous  participation  in  the  Friendship  Fund  for  the 
men  in  the  European  prison  camps,  the  more  carefully 
arranged  visits  of  International  Committee  Secretaries 
in  all  sections,  and  the  creation  and  work  of  the  Com- 


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mittee  of  Counsel.  The  Committee  of  Counsel,  elected 
at  the  International  Convention  at  Cleveland  and  com¬ 
posed  of  students,  professors  and  secretaries  from  differ¬ 
ent  sections,  has  been  a  most  useful  means  of  expression 
of  undergraduate  sentiment. 

War  conditions  have  clearly  revealed  some  of  the 
services  to  the  nation;  for  example,  the  contribution  of 
i  trained  workers  from  the  student  Christian  ranks  for 

such  work  as  the  Red  Cross,  ambulances,  and  work  in 
army  camps.  The  pioneer  work  done  in  the  colleges  in 
the  field  of  sex  education  has  been  turned  in  a  remark¬ 
able  way  to  the  salvation  of  the  whole  body  of  men  in  the 
army  and  navy.  The  close  student  of  the  work  of  this 
movement  realizes  that  it  furnishes  to  the  national  life 
many  other  streams  of  helpful  influence,  some  of  which 
'  cannot  be  so  easily  tabulated  and  measured.  It  would 

1  be  surprising  if  a  movement  so  high  in  purpose  and  with 

so  many  world  implications,  including  so  many  men  who 
are  to  be  leaders  in  the  future,  did  not  in  the  days  imme- 
I  diately  ahead  come  to  a  realization  of  far  greater  national 

and  international  destiny. 

An  Interdenominational  Movement 

In  many  ways  the  primary  loyalty  of  this  Movement  to 
the  Church  has,  during  the  past  year,  been  recognized. 
Just  what  ‘‘the  Church”  is,  the  average  student  finds  con¬ 
siderable  difficulty  in  understanding  when  he  sees  “the 
body  of  Christ”  rent  into  so  many  divisions.  To  such 
students  this  Movement  comes  as  irrefutable  evidence 
that  the  things  which  unite  men  in  Christ  are  more  potent 
than  those  which  divide.  It  works  with  increasing  zeal 
for  a  close  unity  among  the  denominations,  yet  stands  for 
a  loyalty  which  deepens  during  student  days  to  that 
branch  of  the  organized  Church  of  Christ  to  which  each 

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belongs.  As  each  member  of  the  Association  grows  in 
depth  and  fibre  of  Christian  life  through  fellowship  in 
the  worship  and  common  life  of  his  own  'denomination 
he  may  bring  its  wealth  of  truth  into  the  common  life  of 
the  Movement.  He  is  not  asked  to  sacrifice  any  convic¬ 
tion  based  on  truth  which  his  church  has  given  him. 
Thus  it  is  an  interdenominational,  not  an  undenomina¬ 
tional  Movement.  Its  spiritual  life  is  far  richer  so  than 
if  it  strove  to  repress  all  its  membership  into  one  narrow 
mould  where  only  one  ‘‘type”  of  Christian  experience  and 
conviction  could  find  room. 

The  following  incident  is  an  illustration  of  the  interde¬ 
nominational  emphasis  in  the  present  life  of  the  Move¬ 
ment.  At  one  of  the  last  series  of  summer  conferences, 
the  usual  meetings  were  held  by  denominations  for  con¬ 
sideration  of  denominational  life  and  work.  The  larger 
denominations  of  that  section  had  sent  officials  of  their 
Boards  to  guide  these  sessions.  The  executive  of  the 
conference  met  in  one  meeting  those  of  smaller  bodies 
who  were  not  able  to  have  separate  meetings.  The  fol¬ 
lowing  were  represented :  Christian,  4 ;  Church  of  Christ 
in  Japan,  i ;  Disciples,  i ;  Gregorian,  i ;  German  Evangel¬ 
ical  Protestant,  i ;  Friends,  3 ;  Mennonite,  2 ;  London  Mis¬ 
sion  Church,  2;  Moravian,  2;  Shin-Shu  Sect  of  Bud¬ 
dhism,  i;  Reformed,  12;  Unitarian,  2;  Universalist,  2; 
Swedenborgian,  i ;  Zions  Lutheran,  i ;  Evangelical  Asso¬ 
ciation,  I ;  United  Brethren,  6 ;  United  Evangelical,  2 ;  In¬ 
terdenominational,  I ;  Protestant,  i.  Each  was  asked  to 
speak  briefly  to  this  question,  “What  is  the  most  distinc¬ 
tive  value  in  my  denomination?”  At  the  end  there  was 
need  of  no  argument  that  each  had  much  to  learn  from 
the  other  and  that  a  movement  which  comprehended  such 
diverse  ecclesiastical  organizations  gave  unique  promise 
of  that  day  when  we  are  to  be  all  one  in  Christ. 


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The  V^oluntary  Study  Committee  of  the  Council  of 
North  American  Student  Movements  has  continued  its 
cooperative  work  with  a  similar  Committee  of  the  Sun¬ 
day-school  Council  of  Evangelical  Denominations.  These 
Committees  are  organised  with  Rev.  George  T.  Webb, 
D.D.,  of  the  American  Baptist  Publication  Society  as 
Chairman. 

During  the  past  year  a  somewhat  similar  committee  on 
Evangelism  has  been  created  by  the  Council  of  North 
American  Student  Movements  which  cooperates  with  a 
committee  of  the  Council  of  Church  Boards  of  Educa¬ 
tion,  of  which  Rev.  Frank  M.  Sheldon  of  the  Congrega¬ 
tional  Education  Society  is  Chairman.  The  purpose  of 
these  committees  is  to  standardise,  stimulate,  and  counsel 
the  efforts  of  different  constituent  bodies  in  a  vigorous 
evangelistic  effort  in  the  colleges.  The  administration  of 
plans  for  evangelism  is  left  in  the  hands  of  the  constitu¬ 
ent  movement  as  each  local  situation  may  determine. 
The  Joint  Committees  on  Evangelism  have  issued  a  call 
for  a  comprehensive  emphasis  on  evangelism  to  cover  the 
next  student  generation ;  a  sustained  emphasis,  in  which 
a  series  of  meetings  or  campaigns  shall  take  their  proper 
place  in  the  normal  program  of  the  Associations. 

In  November,  1916,  there  was  held  at  Cleveland  a  sig¬ 
nificant  conference  of  leading  representatives  from  the 
Council  of  Church  Boards  of  Education,  the  Conference 
of  Church  Workers  in  State  Universities,  the  Student 
Young  Women’s  Christian  Association  and  the  Student 
Young  Men’s  Christian  Association.  Several  important 
commissions  reported  at  this  conference,  one  on  evangel¬ 
ism  presenting  a  report  which  has  practically  become  the 
charter  of  the  significant  service  to  the  Church  rendered 
by  the  joint  committees  referred  to  above.  The  conclu¬ 
sions  of  the  commission  on  ‘‘An  Adequate  Religious  Pro- 

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gram  for  State  Universities,”  adopted  without  dissent 
after  full  discussion  by  this  representative  conference,  . 
have  been  the  basis  of  most  encouraging  cooperative  ac¬ 
tion.  Visits  have  been  made  by  groups  of  denominational 
and  Association  leaders  to  no  less  than  seven  of  the  lead¬ 
ing  state  universities  for  purposes  of  frank  and  thorough 
conference  with  all  the  local  workers  and  of  drawing  up 
a  united  program  on  the  part  of  all  the  agencies  working 
in  the  university  field. 

These  are  but  typical  of  the  ways  in  which  the  student 
Association  is  realizing  its  ideal  of  serving  to  the  full  the 
denominations  from  which  its  leaders  have  drawn  their 
best  life  and  to  which  the  loyalty  of  the  Movement  is 
irrevocably  committed. 

Conferences 

The  following  table  shows  vividly  the  loss  in  attend¬ 
ance  at  the  summer  conferences.  To  anyone  who  knows 
what  an  important  place  the  conferences  have  always 
held  in  this  movement,  this  will  indicate  how  war  condi¬ 
tions,  by  cutting  down  the  delegations,  have  caused  a  loss 
of  trained  leaders  in  the  local  work.  It  will  be  noted  that 
the  Middle  Atlantic  Conference  was,  on  account  of  the 
war,  combined  with  Northfield.  The  Northwestern  Con- 


ference  also  had  to  be  abandoned. 

Visitors 

Conference 

Place 

Delegates 
(1916)  1917 

AND 

Leaders 

Foreign  Total 

Students  (1916)1917 

Northfield . 

.E.  Northfield,  Mass.. 

.  (409) 

240 

75 

167 

(607) 

482 

Middle  Atlantic . 

Eagles  Mere,  Pa . 

.  (287) 

•  •  • 

•  •  • 

•  •  • 

(357) 

Southern . 

.Blue  Ridge,  N.  C.. . . 

.  (380) 

287 

29 

8 

(458) 

324 

Middle  West . 

.Lake  Geneva,  Wis. . . 

.  (594) 

350 

88 

105 

(827) 

543 

Rocky  Mountain. . . . 

.Estes  Park,  Col . 

.  (222) 

84 

24 

8 

(263) 

116 

Asilomar . 

.Asilomar,  Cal . 

.  (137) 

125 

15 

35 

(191) 

175 

Pacific  Northwest. . . . 

.Seabeck,  Wash . 

.  (110) 

•  •  • 

•  •  • 

•  •  » 

(141) 

Southwest . 

Hollister,  Mo . 

.  (...) 

106 

19 

3 

(...) 

128 

Preparatory  Schools. . 

.Blairstown,  N.  J. . . . 

•  (210) 

279 

73 

•  •  • 

(272) 

352 

Kings  Mt.  (Colored) . 

.Kings  Mt.,  N.  C. . . . 

.  (  98) 

no 

15 

#  •  • 

(113) 

125 

Eastern  Canada . 

.Knowlton,  Que . 

.  (...) 
6 

60 

15 

. . . 

(...) 

75 

It  is  most  enheartening  that  in  spite  of  almost  insuper¬ 
able  difficulties  new  conferences  were  started  in  Eastern 
Canada  at  Knowlton,  Quebec,  and  also  in  the  Southwest¬ 
ern  Territory.  The  absence  of  the  Canadian  delegates 
from  Northfield  was  seriously  felt,  but  all  rejoice  in  the 
promise  of  the  new  conference  with  its  fine  location  and 
in  the  growing  spirit  of  unity  in  the  Canadian  colleges, 
which  makes  this  advance  possible.  The  new  conference 
in  the  Southwest  has  been  created  by  the  growing  import¬ 
ance  of  student  work  in  Texas,  Oklahoma,  Louisiana, 
Arkansas  and  Missouri.  Few,  if  any,  new  conferences 
have  started  in  more  beautiful  locations  and  with  greater 
stability. 

The  conferences  have  never  been  marked  by  more 
earnestness  than  this  year.  With  so  many  college  men 
called  to  give  their  lives  for  the  nation,  the  missionary 
emphasis  was  natural  and  vital.  Because  of  the  large 
number  of  representatives  of  the  different  mission  boards 
home  on  furlough  the  leadership  of  the  mission  study 
classes  was  unusually  strong.  At  Geneva  not  less  than 
thirty  decided  during  the  conference  to  give  their  lives 
to  foreign  mission  service.  In  most  of  the  conferences 
the  plan  of  presenting  a  series  of  apologetic  addresses  was 
continued  under  the  leadership  of  such  men  as  Dean 
Charles  R.  Brown,  Dr.  James  A.  Francis,  President  E.  M. 
Poteat  and  Dr.  Henry  Sloane  Coffin. 

The  presence  of  an  unusually  large  number  of  foreign 
students  made  it  easy  to  see  even  through  the  clouds  of 
war  the  glory  of  the  coming  Kingdom.  Among  the  292 
present  at  all  the  conferences  this  year  were  no  Chinese, 
67  Japanese,  83  Latin  Americans,  5  Armenians,  3  Greeks, 
2  Hungarians,  2  Koreans,  3  Indians,  2  Russians,  2 
Siamese,  2  South  Africans,  i  Syrian,  i  Turk,  i  Dutch,  i 
Austrian,  i  Bohemian,  i  Egyptian,  i  English,  i  Italian, 

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I  Icelander,  i  Burmese,  i  Smyrnan.  No  more  romantic 
work  lies  before  the  student  Association  than  cultivating 
the  stimulating  fellowship  thus  made  possible  with  these 
delegates  from  other  lands. 

A  continental  Summer  School  of  student  secretaries, 
according  to  the  established  precedent  of  meeting  on  al¬ 
ternate  years,  was  planned  to  assemble  at  Hotchkiss 
School,  Lakeville,  Conn.,  early  in  July.  At  the  last 
moment,  however,  the  need  of  these  secretaries  throwing 
themselves  into  the  army  work  made  the  holding  of  the 
school  at  that  time  impossible.  Secretaries  of  the  South 
met  at  Blue  Ridge  during  July  for  a  sectional  summer 
school.  A  postponed  gathering  of  leaders  from  all  parts 
of  the  continent  was  held  at  Niagara  Falls,  September 
19-21,  which  was  attended  by  seventy-two  representa¬ 
tive  student  leaders  from  all  sections  of  the  United  States 
and  Canada.  This  conference  was  marked  by  a  spirit  of 
earnest  friendliness  and  a  growing  sense  of  unity  which 
has  meant  so  much  in  the  student  field  in  recent  years. 
Several  decisions  reached  marked  great  steps  in  advance 
in  the  policy  of  the  movement,  particularly  the  decision 
arrived  at  after  much  prayer  to  ask  the  students  of  the 
United  States  to  raise  this  year  a  fund  of  at  least 
$1,000,000  for  the  work  in  the  armies  and  the  relief  of 
their  fellow  students  in  the  prisoner-of-war  camps. 

The  Field 

The  field  of  our  movement  includes  institutions  of 
various  types:  (a)  Universities  on  private  or  corporate 
foundations;  such  as  Harvard,  Yale,  University  of  Chi¬ 
cago,  and  others;  (b)  state  universities;  that  is,  those 
under  the  direction  of  many  of  the  different  common¬ 
wealths,  for  example,  the  University  of  Wisconsin,  Uni¬ 
versity  of  Illinois,  etc.;  (c)  municipal  universities,  by 

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which  an  increasing  number  of  our  larger  cities,  like 
New  York  and  Cincinnati,  are  providing  a  free  univers¬ 
ity  course  for  their  students;  (d)  denominational  col¬ 
leges;  these  are  mostly  small  but  in  many  cases  of  high 
intellectual  and  religious  standards;  (e)  professional 
schools ;  many  of  these  are  connected  with  universities. 
The  theological  seminaries  are  of  particular  importance; 
(f)  secondary  schools;  these  include  both  private  pre¬ 
paratory  schools,  public  high  schools,  and  evening 
schools.  There  are  at  least  12,000  of  these  schools, 
mostly  of  municipal  foundation;  (g)  Normal  schools; 
most  of  the  students  in  these  are  trained  for  teaching  in 
the  elementary  and  secondary  grades,  while  most  of  the 
colleges  and  university  instructors  are  trained  in  the  uni¬ 
versities.  According  to  the  last  available  government 
reports,  there  are  1,000  institutions  of  higher  learning  in 
the  United  States,  enrolling  272,038  men  students.  The 
number  this  year  will  be  about  one  fourth  or  one  third 
smaller.  The  number  of  private  secondary  schools  is 
2,248,  enrolling  73,208  students. 

The  student  Association  Movement  on  the  men’s  side 
at  present  consists  of  798  Associations :  453  of  these  re¬ 
port  62,889  members.  The  total  number  of  organizations 
includes  18  Canadian,  104  colored,  14  Indian,  41  theolog¬ 
ical  and  about  160  school  Associations. 

Evangelism 

It  has  been  a  year  of  great  and  enheartening  victory  in 
the  evangelistic  emphasis  of  the  movement.  This  is  true 
not  so  much  because  of  the  large  number  of  evangelistic 
campaigns  that  have  been  held  in  different  institutions  in 
all  sections  of  the  country,  but  even  more  because  of 
the  growth  of  certain  tendencies  which  are  hard  to  tabu¬ 
late  in  a  report,  but  promise  much  for  the  future.  These 

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tendencies  include  such  things  as  the  deepening  of  the 
evangelistic  emphasis  in  Bible  classes  and  the  friendly 
personal  effort  of  one  student  for  another.  .Some  of  the 
more  important  campaigns  were  those  led  by  Dr.  Mott  at 
Dartmouth  and  the  University  of  Wisconsin,  by  Mr. 
Brockman  at  the  University  of  Georgia.  There  probably 
never  has  been  a  year  when  such  a  large  proportion  of 
the  traveling  secretaries  of  the  movement  have  led  evan¬ 
gelistic  campaigns,  the  efforts  of  several  of  these  secre¬ 
taries  being  signally  blessed.  Mr.  Raymond  Robins  spent 
several  weeks  in  a  chain  of  colleges  on  the  Pacific  Coast 
where  a  remarkable  interest  was  shown  and  permanent 
results  were  evident.  A  typical  campaign  was  held  at  the 
University  of  California  where  approximately  4,000  stu¬ 
dents  came  to  the  two  general  meetings  and  an  average 
of  2,000  attended  the  four  special  men’s  meetings.  2,374 
men  and  women  indicated  in  written  form  their  decision 
to  yield  their  lives  to  Christ  and  His  service,  and  these 
decisions  were  the  beginning  of  an  unprecedented  move¬ 
ment  for  Christian  social  service  and  church  membership. 

During  the  months  ahead  this  opportunity  for  evangel¬ 
istic  work  will  be  vigorously  pressed.  Students  who  have 
never  been  thoughtful  before  are  deeply  thoughtful  now. 
A  burden  rests  upon  the  leaders  of  this  movement  to 
lead  these  restless  minds  to  that  rest  and  foundation 
which  is  found  in  Christ  alone. 

Bible  Study 

Bible  study  continues  to  be  the  pivotal  point  in  the  col¬ 
lege  Association  program.  30,050  men  are  reported  as  in 
classes  promoted  directly  by  the  Association  and  upwards 
of  8,000  men  were  enrolled  in  other  classes  in  which  the 
Association  cooperated,  chiefly  in  nearby  Sunday  schools. 
A  slight  falling  off  in  this  figure  from  last  year  would 


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be  very  disquieting  were  it  not  for  the  realization 
that  even  more  emphasis  than  usual  has  been  put  upon 
quality  of  work  done  and  particularly  in  training  leaders 
for  the  future.  The  emphasis  upon  personal  Bible  study 
and  the  Morning  Watch  has  been  as  strong  as  in  any  year, 
and  a  continued  effort  has  been  made  to  have  Bible  study 
result  in  Christian  decision  and  in  lives  of  service. 

After  a  careful  scrutiny  of  the  cases  of  failure  of  not 
a  few  Bible  study  classes,  there  has  been  found  to  be  a 
clear  need  of  strengthening  the  classes  for  training  stu¬ 
dent  leaders.  We  have  been  obliged  frankly  to  face  the 
fact  that  a  large  proportion  of  the  leaders’  training  classes 
in  the  past  have  not  succeeded.  The  conviction  has  been 
established  that  the  director  of  the  leaders’  training  class 
must  simply  be  the  chairman  of  a  discussion ;  that  the 
group  leaders  must  work  out  in  common  their  lesson 
plans  including  the  points  of  contact,  questions,  and 
topics  of  special  emphasis.  This  method  marks  a  great 
advance  over  the  usual  plan  of  a  normal  training  class 
conducted  practically  in  the  lecture,  or  ‘‘phonograph” 
method.  At  the  Presidents’  Conference  in  Iowa  twelve 
college  professors  spent  a  whole  day  on  the  question  of 
normal  training.  Fourteen  members  of  the  student  con¬ 
ference  were  selected  as  members  of  a  sample  Bible 
group;  the  professors  met  in  an  actual  normal  training 
class,  planned  out  the  lesson,  phrased  the  questions,  and 
elected  one  to  lead  the  group.  The  rest  of  them  formed 
an  audience  and  afterwards  gave  suggestions  and  criti¬ 
cism.  It  is  not  surprising  that  in  that  state  there  have 
been  a  large  number  of  successful  leaders’  training 
classes  this  year.  In  several  of  the  summer  conferences 
also  special  attention  has  been  given  to  training  leaders 
who  in  turn  may  become  directors  of  normal  groups. 

A  new  course  on  “Christianizing  Community  Life”  by 


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Professor  Harry  F.  Ward  and  Mr.  R.  H.  Edwards  makes 
possible  the  completion  of  the  fourth  year  course  of 
study,  supplementing  “The  Social  Principles  of  Jesus,” 
by  Professor  Walter  Rauschenbusch,  which  was  widely 
used  during  the  first  half  of  the  year.  This  brings  us  to 
the  year  1917  with  books  ready  in  all  four  years  of  the 
proposed  College  Voluntary  Study  series,  as  follows: 

First  Year — College  Problems.  (How  can  I  follow 
Jesus’  standards  in  college  and  help  make  the  campus 
Christian?)  “Student  Standards  of  Action” — Harrison 
S.  Elliott  and  Ethel  Cutler.  “Christian  Standards  in 
Life” — J.  Lovell  Murray  and  Frederick  M.  Harris.  A 
third  book  on  the  Life  of  Christ  according  to  Mark  is 
being  prepared  by  Professor  Cleland  B.  McAfee. 

Second  Year — Life  Choices.  (How  can  I  find  the  life 
work  in  which  I  can  best  serve  the  world?)  “A  Life  at 
Its  Best” — Richard  H.  Edwards  and  Ethel  Cutler.  “A 
Challenge  to  Life  Service” — Frederick  M.  Harris  and 
Joseph  C.  Robbins. 

Third  Year — Questions  of  Belief.  (What  can  a  col¬ 
lege  student  believe?)  Christian  Fundamentals  (To  be 
prepared).  Christianity  and  Other  Religions  (In  course 
of  preparation). 

Fourth  Year — Social  and  World  Problems.  (Can  we 
rebuild  the  world  on  Jesus’  plan?)  “Social  Principles  of 
Jesus” — Walter  Rauschenbusch.  “Christianizing  Com¬ 
munity  Life” — Harry  F.  Ward  and  Richard  H.  Edwards. 

In  addition  to  this  series  of  books,  which  have  been 
widely  used,  there  has  been  even  more  emphasis  than 
usual  upon  the  available  courses  on  sections  of  the  Bible. 
The  courses  by  Professor  Bosworth  and  Professor  Fos- 
dick  have  been  most  helpful.  It  is  encouraging  to  know 
that  we  have  available  for  the  new  year  a  new  synoptic 
record  of  Jesus’  life  by  Dr.  H.  B.  Sharman,  the  first  Bible 


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study  secretary  among  the  student  Associations,  and 
author  of  its  first  and  widely  used  course,  “Studies  in  the 
Life  of  Christ.”  It  is  hoped  that  we  may  soon  have  a 
course  of  study  based  upon  this  new  harmony. 

The  Missionary  Emphasis 

It  is  easy  to  be  provincial  in  the  United  States,  but  the 
world  war  has  made  students  think  in  world  terms.  A 
surprisingly  large  number  of^  missionary  courses  have 
been  placed  in  the  curricula  of  many  of  the  leading  insti¬ 
tutions.  It  is  not  too  much  to  say  that  this  is  one  of  the 
indirect  results  of  this  Movement’s  work.  15,959  men 
students  have  enrolled  in  923  classes.  While  this  figure 
compares  favorably  with  the  results  in  recent  years,  no 
one  would  dare  say  that  it  is  a  result  as  commendable  as 
we  can  wish  or  as  the  present  world  situation  surely  de¬ 
mands.  No  phase  of  the  work  is  harder  to  report  statis¬ 
tically  because  several  of  the  new  courses,  “A  Challenge 
to  Life  Service”  for  example,  have  the  whole  world  rather 
than  the  foreign  world  in  their  view  and  are  based  upon 
daily  Bible  study.  While  there  are  advantages  in  having 
certain  courses  of  this  nature,  the  men  who  make  out 
statistical  reports  may  report  such  a  course  as  either 
Bible,  mission,  or  social  study.  The  plan  has  been  widely 
tried  in  recent  years  of  stressing  Bible  study  during  the 
first  semester  and  mission  study  during  the  second 
semester.  It  is  clear  that  during  the  year  upon  which  we 
are  just  entering  special  effort  must  be  made  to  start  mis¬ 
sion  groups  at  the  very  beginning  of  the  second  semester. 

There  has  been  a  commendable  sense  of  urgency  in 
securing  missionary  recruits.  While  according  to  the 
wise  policy  of  the  Student  Volunteer  Movement  no 
records  are  published  of  the  number  of  students  signing 
Volunteer  cards,  it  is  interesting  to  know  that  during  the 

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past  year  the  boards  and  societies  sending  out  mission¬ 
aries  report  the  names  of  444  Student  Volunteers  who 
have  reached  the  foreign  mission  field  since  the  last  an¬ 
nual  report.  There  are  few  more  inspiring  chapters  in 
the  story  of  the  modern  Church  than  the  helpful  min¬ 
istry  of  this  Movement  in  raising  up  leaders  for  the 
Church  abroad.  Since  the  origin  of  the  Volunteer  Move¬ 
ment  at  the  first  student  conference  at  Mt.  Hermon, 
Mass.,  in  1886,  not  less  than  6,934  Student  Volunteers 
have  actually  reached  the  foreign  mission  field.  'All  these 
recruits  have,  of  course,  been  sent  out  through  the  mis¬ 
sion  boards,  for  which  the  Student  Movement  attempts 
to  be  a  recruiting  agency  as  it  is  for  the  ministry  at  home. 

The  latest  reports,  covering  missionary  giving  by  stu¬ 
dents  for  the  year  1915-16,  show  that  679  institutions  se¬ 
cured  $247,424  for  foreign  mission  enterprises.  $128,846 
of  this  amount  was  given  by  students  and  the  balance, 
$118,559,  has  been  given  by  faculty,  alumni,  and  other 
friends.  The  total  number  contributing  was  68,574. 
Among  the  larger  sums  reported  are:  Yale  $33,378  of 
which  $3,878  was  contributed  by  students ;  University  of 
Pennsylvania  $30,353  of  which  $2,233  was  contributed 
by  students;  Princeton  $24,433  of  which  $3,172  was  con¬ 
tributed  by  students;  St.  Paul’s  School  $4,550  of  which 
the  students  contributed  $3,950;  The  Hill  School  $2,875, 
wholly  contributed  by  students. 

The  Social  Emphasis 

While  the  war  dragged  along  and  up  until  our  nation 
entered  into  the  conflict,  thoughtful  students  were  irresist¬ 
ibly  led  to  a  study  of  the  underlying  social  conditions 
which  make  war  possible  in  our  modern  life.  It  is  in¬ 
creasingly  difficult  to  separate,  at  least  as  far  as  essential 
spirit  goes,  international  warfare  from  that  kind  of  con- 

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flict  of  which  we  see  so  much  in  our  present  national  life, 
particularly  in  industry  and  commerce.  And  who  of  us 
shall  say  that  in  our  college  life  and  home  life  the  spirit  of 
war — that  is,  the  spirit  of  selfishness,  greed,  suspicion,  and 
hate — has  been  wholly  absent?  It  is  not  surprising  that 
such  lines  of  thinking  have  led  many  men  to  put  a  new 
valuation  upon  the  social  emphasis  in  student  work. 
Whence  are  leaders  to  come  for  the  new  day  which  must 
dawn,  a  day  of  Christian  brotherhood  for  the  whole 
world  ?  Who  if  not  many  from  the  present  generation  of 
students  shall  be  raised  up  to  lead  the  Church  in  the  great 
new  tasks  of  reconstruction?  While  there  has  been  no 
relaxation  in  getting  individual  students  to  throw  them¬ 
selves  during  free  hours  into  various  forms  of  local  social 
service,  it  is  not  surprising  that  there  has  been  a  growth 
of  conviction  that  the  chief  burden  upon  students  is  in  the 
realm  of  thought,  discussion,  and  the  making  of  convic¬ 
tion.  Such  foundations  are  necessary  if  immediate  social 
service  and  lives  of  service  are  to  give  highest  results. 
The  new  study  course  of  Professor  Rauschenbusch  on 
“The  Social  Principles  of  Jesus’’  has  helped  greatly  in 
giving  students  this  Christian  foundation. 

In  addition  to  this  consideration  of  the  foundation  for 
social  thinking  and  social  action  there  has  been  wide 
use  of  particular  studies  such  as  Richardson’s  “The 
Liquor  Problem,”  and  Weatherford’s  “Negro  Life  in  the 
South.”  It  is  estimated  that  over  three  thousand  students 
were  engaged  in  the  group  study  of  these  and  other 
voluntary  study  courses  of  North  American  problems. 

The  work  of  representatives  of  the  movement  in  regard 
to  the  race  problem  is  of  great  promise.  In  addition  to 
a  large  number  of  white  college  men  being  enrolled  in 
groups  studying  negro  life,  there  have  been  many  oppor¬ 
tunities  for  helpful  service  in  the  general  cause  of  creat- 

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ing  a  spirit  of  brotherhood  between  races,  not  only  be¬ 
tween  white  and  Negro,  but  also  Mexican,  Italian,  Jap¬ 
anese,  and  any  others  who,  in  our  arrogant  selfishness, 
are  regarded  with  prejudice  and  antagonism. 

Recruiting  Christian  Workers 

The  following  chart,  based  upon  a  study  of  31 1  Asso¬ 
ciations  of  different  types,  shows  graphically  the  constant 
emphasis  of  the  movement  upon  life  work  guidance  with 
a  view  to  strengthening  the  leadership  of  the  Church. 


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A  careful  study  has  been  made  of  the  problem  of 
presentation  of  the  ministry  to  college  men,  using  among 
other  means  a  careful  questionnaire  which  was  answered 
by  representative  leaders  of  the  Boards  of  Education  of 
various  churches  and  seminaries.  Among  the  chief  con¬ 
clusions  drawn  up  on  the  basis  of  this  study  are  (i)  that 
in  recruiting  for  the  Christian  ministry  the  emphasis 
should  be  at  the  present  time  not  so  much  upon  the  need 
for  more  men  as  the  need  for  a  higher  grade  of  men;  (2) 
that  public  addresses  on  the  ministry  or  any  other  line 
of  Christian  calling  are  of  little  worth  unless  they  are 

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followed  by  careful  personal  interviews  and  a  campaign 
for  selecting  one  by  one  some  of  the  outstanding  students 
for  this  high  calling. 

A  representative  conference  was  held  at  Auburn  Theo¬ 
logical  Seminary,  February  9-1 1,  1917,  attended  by  fifty- 
one  students  and  professors  from  twenty-four  seminaries. 
Such  a  conference  does  much  to  bind  together  the  future 
leaders  of  the  different  denominations  and  also  to  show 
the  seminary  students  their  relation  to  and  responsibility 
for  the  deeper  life  of  the  Student  Movement  in  the  col¬ 
leges.  One  literary  result  of  this  conference  is  a  reprint, 
under  the  title  of  “Worship,”  of  an  address  by  Professor 
William  Adams  Brown.  Representatives  of  the  Move¬ 
ment  have  participated  in  various  conferences  having  to 
do  with  recruiting  the  future  leadership  of  the  Church. 
The  most  important  of  these  have  been  a  special  confer¬ 
ence  called  by  representatives  of  the  Missionary  Educa¬ 
tion  Movement  and  of  the  various  church  bodies  being 
responsible  for  recruiting  and  the  Conference  on  the 
Association  Profession. 

A  continued  use  has  been  made  of  the  card  to  record 
decisions  for  a  commitment  to  Christian  service.  This 
card  reads  as  follows : 

A  CHRISTIAN  MAN'S  FUNDAMENTAL  LIFE  WORK 

DECISION 

I  will  live  my  life  under  God  for  others  rather  than  for  myself, 
for  the  advancement  of  the  Kingdom  of  God  rather  than  my  per¬ 
sonal  success. 

I  will  not  drift  into  my  life  work,  but  I  will  do  my  utmost 
by  prayer,  investigation,  meditation  and  service  to  discover  that 
form  and  place  of  life  work  in  which  I  can  become  of  the  largest 
use  to  the  Kingdom  of  God. 

As  I  find  it  I  will  follow  it  under  the  leadership  of  Jesus 
Christ  wheresoever  it  may  take  me,  cost  what  it  may. 

Sex  Education 

For  five  years  the  Student  Department  has  given  defi- 

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nite  attention  to  the  study  and  promotion  of  sex  educa¬ 
tion  in  the  colleges  and  universities.  The  objectives  of 
this  work  have  been :  first,  to  furnish  students  with  such 
knowledge  of  sex  and  such  understanding  of  its  meaning 
in  human  life  as  would  help  them  to  direct  this  most 
powerful  human  instinct  into  character-making  and  life- 
enriching  channels ;  second,  to  help  in  making  sex  educa¬ 
tion  a  coordinate  feature  of  the  educational  program  of 
the  colleges  and  universities. 

Gratifying  progress  has  been  made  toward  the  attain¬ 
ment  of  these  objectives.  There  has  come  to  be  a  more 
respectful  attitude  among  students  toward  the  whole 
subject  of  sex  and  a  deeper  appreciation  of  its  finer  pos¬ 
sibilities  and  deep  responsibilities.  Intelligent  discussion 
of  the  subject  on  a  high  level  in  place  of  vulgar  conver¬ 
sation  has  come  to  be  more  frequent  in  student  groups, 
and  careful  investigation  has  shown  that  large  numbers 
have  received  that  knowledge,  vision  and  inspiration 
which  has  helped  them  to  lead  a  manly  life  of  self- 
mastery  and  of  loyalty  to  high  ideals  of  love  and  sex. 

Much  has  been  accomplished  in  bringing  sex  educa¬ 
tion  into  its  place  in  higher  education.  The  majority  of 
institutions  of  any  note  are  already  giving  some  attention 
to  it  and  a  considerable  proportion  have  required  courses 
in  this  subject.  Striking  advance  has  been  made  in  the 
character  of  general  teaching  on  this  subject.  Depressing 
portrayals  of  abnormalities  and  perversions  and  a  too 
exclusively  physical  emphasis  have  been  largely  replaced 
by  teaching  in  which  the  major  emphasis  is  upon  high 
ideals,  spiritual  values  and  social  responsibilities.  This 
advance  is  clearly  manifest  in  the  growing  literature  on 
the  subject.  The  stream  of  mediocre  material  is  lessen¬ 
ing  and  literature  of  a  higher  order  is  increasing. 

The  program  of  lectures  to  students  by  specially 

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qualified  lecturers,  under  the  auspices  of  the  Association, 
has  been  continued.  In  a  considerable  number  of  insti¬ 
tutions  our  speakers  were  asked  to  deliver  the  re¬ 
quired  lectures  in  the  established  courses  in  this  subject. 
Nearly  100,000  students  were  last  year  influenced  in 
this  way. 

Dr.  AI.  J.  Exner,  who  is  directing  this  work  of  sex 
education,  was  called  to  spend  nearly  two  months  among 
the  troops  on  the  Mexican  border  and  in  Mexico.  He 
was  ably  assisted  by  Mr.  H.  L.  Heinzman.  Both  spoke 
to  great  audiences  of  soldiers  in  nearly  all  of  the  military 
camps.  Dr.  Exner  also  made  a  careful  study  of  the  seri¬ 
ous  vice  conditions  which  existed  on  the  border  and  his 
reports  aided  greatly  in  the  inauguration  of  the  construc¬ 
tive  program  for  moral  conservation  in  the  army  mobil¬ 
ized  for  war  in  Europe.  As  a  result  of  his  work  on  the 
border  he  was  summoned  by  the  Government  Commis¬ 
sion  on  Training  Camp  Activities  to  carry  out  a  program 
of  sex  education  for  the  entire  American  army.  800,000 
copies  of  Dr.  Exner’s  pamphlet  “Friend  or  Enemy”  have 
already  been  circulated  among  the  soldiers. 

State  Universities 

For  the  first  time  a  special  secretary  has  been  employed 
to  give  all  his  time  to  work  in  state  universities.  In  co¬ 
operative  effort  between  the  Young  Women’s  and  Young 
Men’s  Christian  Associations  and  the  representatives  of 
the  various  church  bodies  there  are  many  signs  of  ad¬ 
vance.  The  main  points  of  the  report  of  the  Commission 
on  “An  Adequate  Religious  Program  for  State  Univer¬ 
sities”  presented  at  the  Second  Cleveland  Conference  of 
Association  and  church  workers  was  of  so  much  im¬ 
portance  that  its  main  conclusions  should  be  printed  in 
such  a  report  as  this. 


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Purpose  of  Work  in  State  Universities 

The  Commission  believes  the  following  to  be  the  purpose  of 
our  common  enterprise : 

(a)  To  lead  every  man  and  woman  in  a  university  com¬ 
munity  into  faith  in  God  through  Jesus  Christ  as  Divine 
Lord  and  Savior. 

(b)  To  unite  them  in  membership  and  service  in  the  Christian 
Church. 

(c)  To  promote  their  growth  in  Christian  faith  and  character. 

(d)  To  prepare  them  for  world-wide  service  in  the  Kingdom 
of  God. 

Indispensable  Activities 

The  Commission  considers  the  following  activities  indispens¬ 
able  to  an  adequate  program,  (a)  Evangelism  of  students,  (b) 
Church  relationships,  (c)  Pastoral  care  and  preaching,  (d)  Bible 
study,  (e)  Mission  study,  (f)  Social  study,  (g)  Social  service, 
(h)  Promotion  of  Christian  benevolence,  (i)  Recruiting. 

The  Expansion  of  These  Activities  into  a 
Comprehensive  University-Wide  Program 

The  Commission  believes  that  the  number  of  activities  at 
present  promoted  in  state  universities  is,  as  a  rule,  sufficient. 
The  surveys  of  the  local  situations,  however,  lead  to  the  convic¬ 
tion  that  sufficient  attention  has  not  been  given  to  the  size  of  the 
task  to  be  performed.  Considerable  groups  of  students  are 
largely  unreached,  and  present  plans  do  not  give  promise  of 
remedying  the  situation.  Therefore,  it  seems  essential  that  all 
of  the  religious  forces  now  operating  should  be  so  correlated 
and  unified  as  to  put  into  effect  a  program  that  shall  bring  home 
to  every  student  the  complete  message  of  Christianity.  This 
result  can  never  be  achieved  by  the  mere  federation  of  small 
plans  which  already  may  be  in  existence,  as,  for  example,  by 
bringing  both  Association  and  church  Bible  groups  under  some 
common  direction,  but  it  calls  for  a  comprehensive  and  thorough 
survey  of  the  whole  field,  together  with  the  training  of  a  suffi¬ 
cient  leadership  from  both  graduate  and  undergraduate  sources 
to  meet  the  total  need  discovered,  and  then  such  a  division  of 
labor  as  to  make  it  certain  that  each  line  of  activity  shall  be  w^ell 
understood  and  vigorously  pressed. 

Principles  Involved 

In  view  of  the  situation  as  outlined,  the  Commission  presents 
the  following  principles  which  it  believes  to  be  essential  to  an 
adequate  religious  program  for  state  universities : 

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(1)  We  recognize  the  university  as  a  community  with  a  uni¬ 
fied  community  life;  and,  therefore,  that  our  task  is  not  only 
the  development  of  individual  Christians,  but  also  the  creation 
and  maintenance  of  a  university  community  consciousness  favor¬ 
able  to  the  Christian  life. 

(2)  We  recognize  the  opportunity  and  the  responsibility  of  the 
Church  to  cooperate  with  the  university  in  the  development  of 
this  moral  and  religious  life. 

(3)  We  recognize  that  while  students  are  members  of  a  uni¬ 
versity  community,  they  should  be  kept  loyal  to  the  church  of 
their  preference;  and,  therefore,  we  urge  the  identification  of 
each  student  with  a  local  church,  and  we  further  urge  the  faith¬ 
ful  performance  of  all  the  duties  of  membership  in  that  church. 

(4)  We  recognize  that  in  order  to  reach  the  entire  university 
and  especially  the  non-Christians  and  indifferent  Christians,  and 
in  order  to  cooperate  more  effectively  with  those  Christian  com¬ 
munions  not  included  in  the  organized  local  work  among  stu¬ 
dents,  it  is  essential  that  the  denominations  work  together 
through  some  interdenominational  movement.  In  the  light  of 
history  and  experience  it  is  recognized  that  the  Young  Men’s 
and  Young  Women’s  Christian  Associations  constitute  this  In¬ 
terdenominational  Movement. 

(5)  We  recognize  the  religious  work  in  the  university  as  the 
common  task  of  the  churches  and  the  Associations,  but  there  is 
no  clear  division  of  interests.  We  recommend,  therefore,  that 
while  some  functions  may  be  more  particularly  those  of  the 
churches  and  others  of  the  Associations,  each  should  feel  its  re¬ 
sponsibility  for  cooperation  in  the  work  of  the  others. 

(6)  We  recognize  that  in  carrying  out  this  common  task  for 
the  entire  university,  the  best  results  can  never  be  secured  by  a 
federation  of  individual  plans  worked  out  independently  by  the 
respective  church  and  Association  agencies.  We  recommend, 
therefore,  that  a  united  and  thorough  study  be  made  of  the  needs 
of  the  entire  university  and  that  in  any  particular  activity,  Bible 
study  or  social  service  for  example,  the  Christian  forces  work 
out  together  a  unified  program,  planned  with  reference  to  the 
entire  university. 

(7)  We  recognize  in  the  organization  both  of  the  churches’ 
and  Associations’  work,  that  student  initiative  and  control,  both 
in  forming  and  in  carrying  out  plans,  should  be  encouraged  and 
utilized. 

(8)  We  recognize  that  neither  the  Associations  nor  the 
churches  can  render  their  full  service  without  effective  student 
workers.  We,  therefore,  recommend  that  there  be  frank  consul¬ 
tation  between  these  agencies  to  ensure  that  the  local  student 
forces  are  distributed  for  the  most  effective  manning  of  all  work. 

(9)  We  recognize  that  the  Associations  shall  have  the  right  of 
initiative,  and  that  they  shall  be  held  responsible  for  carrying 
out  the  joint  plans  of  the  churches  as  far  as  practicable;  but  they 
should  be  so  constituted  that  the  churches  cooperate  in  forming 


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their  policies.  (See  Finding  IV  of  Cleveland  Conference.)* 

(10)  We  recognize  that  there  must  be  the  fullest  opportunity 
for  the  expression  of  initiative  by  the  churches;  but  that  in  all 
such  plans  the  ultimate  test  should  be  not  only  its  effectiveness 
to  the  individual  churches,  but  also  its  relation  to  and  its  effect 
upon  the  cooperative  plans. 

(11)  We  recognize  that  there  can  be  no  assurance  of  effective 
cooperation  without  regular,  thorough,  and  timely  consultation 
upon  the  part  of  all  the  Christian  workers  concerned. 

(12)  We  recommend  that  any  agency  initiating  religious  work 
at  the  university  make  special  effort  to  secure  the  support  and 
cooperation  of  all  agencies  concerned  with  the  religious  life  of 
the  university. 

(13)  We  recognize  the  very  great  importance  of  using  as  secre¬ 
taries  and  pastors,  and  as  members  of  advisory  and  consulting 
boards,  only  such  men  and  women  as  have  both  the  willingness 
and  the  ability  to  work  cooperatively. 

(14)  We  recognize  that  in  enterprises  which  concern  both  the 
churches  and  the  Associations  effective  cooperation  can  be  ob¬ 
tained  only  when  each  organization  is  willing  to  favor  move¬ 
ments  of  obvious  good  to  the  whole,  even  though  unable  for 
any  reason  to  give  the  same  individual  support. 

(15)  We  recognize  that  cooperation  in  each  local  field  will  be 
greatly  increased  if  the  traveling  secretaries  or  other  officers 
of  the  various  national  organizations  endeavor  to  meet  with 
all  local  Christian  workers  in  the  state  universities  they  visit 
whenever  such  conference  can  be  made  conducive  to  the  spirit  of 
general  cooperation  or  whenever  such  a  visit  is  aimed  to  change 
or  extend  plans  in  which  all  are  concerned.  Such  a  meeting 
should  give  opportunity  for  frank  and  full  discussion  in  open 
conference  of  whatever  plans  and  suggestions  they  may  have  in 
mind. 

(16)  We  recognize  as  supplementary  to  the  coordination  of 
the  agencies  at  the  university  center  the  great  advantage  which 
would  accrue  from  consultation  and  conference  between  repre¬ 
sentatives  of  the  national  student  and  church  agencies  regarding 
the  work  that  is  being  planned  for  university  centers. 

In  line  with  these  important  conclusions  a  series  of 
visits  were  made  during  the  year  to  local  university  fields 
jointly  by  representatives  of  the  International  Committee, 

*“IV.  On  the  supervisory  or  advisory  bodies  of  the  Associations,  both  local 
and  national,  should  be,  so  far  as  is  consistent  with  efficiency,  representatives  of 
the  various  Christian  communions,  which  representatives  shall  be  nominated,  by 
the  Association’s  supervisory  or  advisory  body  concerned,  approved  by  the  proper 
ecclesiastical  authority  of  the  Christian  communions  concerned,  and,  in  the  case  of 
local  Associations,  elected  by  the  Association.  It  is  understood  that  in  the  case  of 
the  Young  Women’s  Christian  Association  their  supervisory  or  advisory  bodies 
will  be  composed  of  women.  It  is  also  understood  that  persons  elected  to  these 
supervisory  or  advisory  bodies  shall  have  qualifications  which  agree  with  the 
membership  of  the  Association  Movement.” 

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the  National  Board  and  several  of  the  Church  Boards  of 
Education,  which  are  doing  work  in  the  university  field. 
These  visits  were  for  the  purpose  of  thorough  conference 
with  all  local  workers  in  regard  to  meeting  more  ade¬ 
quately  the  religious  needs  of  all  the  students  in  these  dif¬ 
ferent  institutions.  Such  visits  resulted  in  the  draw¬ 
ing  up  of  progressive,  cooperative  plans  at  such  univer¬ 
sities  as  Illinois,  Minnesota,  Iowa,  Kansas,  Nebraska, 
Oklahoma,  Michigan,  and  Ohio  State. 

Preparatory  Schools 

The  second  separate  Preparatory  School  Conference 
was  held  at  Blairstown,  N.  J.,  with  an  attendance  of  352, 
which  is  80  more  than  at  the  first  conference  last  year. 
In  addition  to  this  there  was  a  representative  group  of 
masters  present  at  the  conference,  and  special  meetings 
were  held  each  day  for  a  discussion  of  their  particular 
interests.  Several  of  the  schools  participated  in  a  special 
Friendship  Fund  for  the  relief  of  prisoners-of-war,  some 
of  the  largest  gifts  being  St.  Paul’s  School  $5,805, 
Phillips  Andover  $3,382,  Groton  $843.61,  Exeter  $1,449, 
St.  Mark’s  $2,199.98,  The  Hill  $2,625.  A  renewed  effort 
has  been  made  to  connect  the  university  with  the  school 
work.  Deputations  from  the  larger  universities  have 
visited  the  preparatory  schools  to  help  in  any  way  pos¬ 
sible  in  the  voluntary  religious  life  of  the  school.  Record 
of  senior  boys  has  been  kept  with  a  view  to  furnishing 
college  secretaries  information  concerning  the  possibil¬ 
ities  of  religious  leadership  on  the  part  of  incoming  fresh¬ 
men.  In  this  way  most  encouraging  results  have  been 
secured  in  avoiding  the  too  frequent  loss  resulting  from 
freshmen  not  being  linked  immediately  to  the  organized 
religious  life  of  the  college.  If  no  other  of  the  many 
helpful  results  of  the  school  work  were  to  be  mentioned, 

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this  feature  alone  would  justify  all  the  effort  of  the  Stu¬ 
dent  Movement  in  this  important  field.  In  the  schools 
themselves  unusual  emphasis  has  been  put  upon  an  in¬ 
tensified  and  simple  program  of  Bible  study,  a  weekly 
meeting,  and  personal  friendly  influence.  In  several 
schools  evangelistic  campaigns  were  held. 

Foreign  Students 

Helpful  contact  has  been  maintained  with  six  thousand 
foreign  students  enrolled  in  different  American'  colleges. 
The  Committee  on  Friendly  Relations  with  Foreign 
Students,  under  whose  leadership  much  of  this  work  is 
done,  has  published  and  distributed  a  directory  giving  the 
name,  nationality,  and  university  location  of  over  four 
thousand  of  these  students;  an  Educational  Guide  has 
also  been  published  in  English,  Spanish  and  Japanese, 
and  presented  to  educators  and  prospective  students. 

Chinese,  Japanese,  and  Latin  American  traveling  secre¬ 
taries  have  rendered  valuable  service  to  students  of  their 
own  nationalities.  Committees  meet  all  new  students 
upon  their  arrival  in  this  country  and  assist  them  in  reach¬ 
ing  their  destination,  where  their  needs  are  looked  after  by 
representatives  of  the  local  student  Christian  Association. 
Hundreds  of  letters  of  introduction  to  professors,  pastors 
and  secretaries  are  given  to  foreign  students.  Nearly 
three  hundred  students  from  thirty-seven  different  coun¬ 
tries  were  entertained  as  our  guests  at  the  Summer  Con¬ 
ferences.  It  would  be  difficult  to  overstate  the  signifi¬ 
cance  of  the  international  fellowship  thus  afforded. 
Gratitude  is  given  for  the  decisions  for  the  Christian  life 
announced  by  forty  foreign  students.  Chinese,  Japanese, 
and  Indian  students  continue  the  publication  of  maga¬ 
zines  and  bulletins  which  are  a  positive  factor  in  unifying 
and  stimulating  the  life  of  their  students.  Progress  has 

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been  made  in  discovering  positions  for  graduate  students 
who  desire  practical  experience  in  some  industry  before 
returning  home.  Through  the  visits  of  our  Chinese  and 
Japanese  secretaries  to  their  home  countries,  a  great  ad¬ 
vance  has  been  made  in  plans  for  receiving  and  directing 
the  returned  students. 

Indian  Students 

Five  new  school  Associations  have  been  organized  this 
year,  bringing  the  total  to  twenty-two  student  Associa¬ 
tions  with  a  membership  of  over  1,300.  This  is  an  in¬ 
crease  in  membership  of  246  over  last  year.  A  second 
secretary  has  been  employed  for  part  time  especially  to 
work  among  some  of  the  Indian  tribes  of  the  Middle 
West.  Membership  in  the  Indian  Associations  includes 
a  pledge  of  daily  Bible  study  and  prayer,  and  attendance 
upon  the  weekly  prayer  meeting  of  the  school  Associa¬ 
tion.  One  of  the  most  encouraging  results  of  the  year’s 
work  has  been  the  proof  that  many  members  of  the 
school  Associations  are  going  back  to  the  reservations  to 
become  active  leaders  in  the  religious  life.  There  is  an 
encouraging  evidence  of  benevolent  giving  by  the  Indian 
Associations.  In  addition  to  a  larger  amount  of  money 
being  given  for  the  support  of  the  local  work,  the  Haskell 
School  Association  gave  $66.62  to  the  Friendship  War 
Fund  and  the  Dakota  Associations  have  continued  to  sup¬ 
port  John  Devadas  as  their  representative  in  India. 

Negro  Students 

One  of  the  ablest  workers  in  the  Negro  schools  has 
been  called  to  take  up  Association  work  among  the  Negro 
troops  in  German  East  Africa.  Two  secretaries  of  the 
Colored  Men’s  Department  have  been  employed  in  this 
field  this  year.  There  are  now  104  Associations  with 

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4,656  members,  representing  an  increase  in  membership 
of  242  over  last  year.  One  of  the  outstanding  advances 
of  the  year  has  been  in  the  larger  attendance  and  deep¬ 
ened  interest  in  the  Kings  Mountain  Student  Conference, 
which  was  attended  this  year  by  125,  an  increase  of 
twelve  over  last  year.  Special  attention  at  this  confer¬ 
ence  was  given  to  training  leaders  for  Bible  group  work 
and  plans  are  being  made  to  promote  vigorously  the  vol¬ 
untary  study  program  throughout  the  year. 

V 

The  North  American  Student 

In  a  country  of  such  vast  geographical  distances  there 
are  always  difficulties  in  the  way  of  unity  and  cohesion  in 
the  Movement.  One  of  the  best  means  of  promoting 
helpful  unity  has  been  the  magazine.  It  is  encouraging 
to  note  by  the  lengthening  subscription  list  evidence  of 
increased  loyalty  to  our  common  enterprise.  The  make¬ 
up  has  been  changed  to  make  possible  the  publication  of 
much  more  material  with  the  same  number  of  pages. 
A  special  campaign  for  subscriptions  in  the  early  spring 
brought  most  encouraging  response.  A  special  issue  of 
the  magazine  in  June  was  published  for  special  circula¬ 
tion  among  the  40,000  officers  in  the  training  camps,  most 
of  these  men  being  students. 

Literature 

No  phase  of  the  movement’s  life  is  of  more  impor¬ 
tance  than  the  preparation,  publication  and  use  of  liter¬ 
ature.  Through  a  cooperative  arrangement  with  Associa¬ 
tion  Press  there  is  a  reciprocal  use  of  publications  of  the 
Student  Department  and  those  of  other  departments  in 
the  Association  movement.  Several  of  the  best  Bible 
study  courses  are  published  in  cooperation  with  the 
publishing  houses  of  the  leading  denominations. 

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It  may  not  be  out  of  place  to  call  special  attention  to 
the  remarkable  success  with  which  several  books  origi¬ 
nally  published  by  this  Department  have  been  received. 
No  less  than  152,952  copies  of  Professor  Fosdick’s  book 
on  “The  Meaning  of  Prayer”  have  been  published,  and 
108,956  copies  of  “The  Manhood  of  the  Master.” 

In  addition  to  the  two  text  books  “Social  Principles 
of  Jesus”  and  “Christianizing  Community  Life”  the  fol¬ 
lowing  new  books  and  pamphlets  have  been  issued  during 
the  year. 


Worship . William  Adams  Brown 

Records  of  the  Life  of  Jesus . H.  B.  Sharman 

The  Jesus  of  History . T.  R,  Glover 

Christian  Life,  A  Normal  Experience . W.  D.  Weatherford 

Personal  Elements  in  Religious  Life . W.  D.  Weatherford 

The  Dynamic  of  Manhood . L.  H.  Gulick 

Life’s  Clinic . E.  H.  Hooker 

The  Effective  Force . F.  P.  Miller 

America’s  Experience  in  Student  Young  Men’s  Christian 

Association  Buildings . Neil  McMillan,  Jr. 

The  Beloved  Captain  (reprinted) . Donald  Hankey 

How  to  Use  the  Morning  Quiet  Time . R.  P.  Wilder 

United  Intercession . R.  P.  Wilder 

Christian  Work  Among  American  Students  (A  Report) .... 
Report  of  the  Theological  Section  of  the  Student  Department 

Paul  Micou 

Guide  to  Voluntary  Bible  Study  Books . H.  S.  Elliott 

A  Monthly  Prayer  Cycle 

The  North  American  Student  (published  in  cooperation  with  the 
Student  Volunteer  Movement  and  the  Young  Women’s 
Christian  Association.) 


Besides  these,  new  editions  of  the  following  have  been 
printed. 

The  Future  Leadership  of  the  Church . J.  R.  Mott 

Personal  Economy  and  Social  Reform . H.  G.  Wood 

Modern  Discipleship  and  What  it  Means . E.  S.  Woods 

The  Life  and  Works  of  Jesus . . . W.  D.  Murray 

Studies  in  the  Life  of  Jesus  Christ..’ . E.  I.  Bosworth 

The  Teachings  of  Jesus  and  His  Apostles . E.  I.  Bosworth 

The  Campaign  of  Friendship . F.  M.  Harris 

The  Manhood  of  the  Master . H.  E.  Fosdick 

The  Meaning  of  Prayer . . H.  E.  Fosdick 

The  Will  of  God  and  a  Man’s  Life  Work . H.  B.  Wright 

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Leadership  of  Bible  Study  Groups . H.  H.  Horne 

Christianity  and  Amusements . R.  H.  Edwards 

A  Life  at  Its  Best . R.  H.  Edwards-E.  Cutler 

Student  Standards  of  Action . H.  S.  Elliott-E,  Cutler 

The  Work  and  Teachings  of  the  Earlier  Prophets . 

C.  F.  Kent-R.  S.  Smith 

Christian  Standards  in  Life . J.  L.  Murray-F.  M.  Harris 

A  Challenge  to  Life  Service . J.  C.  Robbins-F.  M.  Harris 

Studies  in  the  Life  of  Christ . H.  B.  Sharman 

The  Rational  Sex  Life  for  Men . M.  J.  Exner 


A  Call  for  Character . E.  L  Bosworth 

Temptation  and  How  to  Meet  it . G.  S.  Eddy 

The  Fight  for  Character . H.  C.  King 

Bible  Study  for  Personal  Spiritual  Growth . J;  R,  Mott. 

How  to  Make  Jesus  Christ  Real . J.  R.  Mott 

Intercessors — The  Primary  Need . J,  R.  Mott 

The  Morning  Watch . J.  R.  Mott 

How  to  Deal  with  Temptation . R.  E.  Speer 


Bible  Study,  the  Great  Way  Into  Life’s  Values . H.  C.  King 

Allocation  of  Staff 

During  the  past  year  the  work  of  the  Department  has 
been  divided  as  follows : 

Gale  Seaman,  the  Pacific  Coast  and  Idaho,  Utah,  Ari¬ 
zona  and  New  Mexico;  H.  L.  Heinzman,  Rocky  Moun¬ 
tain  Territory  (Colorado,  Montana,  Wyoming,  Kansas 
and  Nebraska)  ;  A.  J.  Elliott,  the  Middle  West,  and 
Evangelism  and  Finance;  W.  W.  Crutchfield,  the  South¬ 
west  (Texas,  Oklahoma,  Louisiana,  Arkansas  and  Mis¬ 
souri)  ;  W.  D,  Weatherford,  the  South;  F.  P.  Miller, 
Preparatory  Schools  and  New  England;  William  McE. 
Miller,  Middle  Atlantic  States.  The  services  of  a  group 
of  specializing  secretaries  have  been  at  the  disposal  of  all 
territorial  secretaries ;  H.  S.  Elliott  for  Bible  study  work ; 
R.  H.  Edwards  and  A.  M.  Trawick  for  social  service  and 
social  study ;  Dr.  M.  J.  Exner,  for  sex  education ;  Rev. 
Paul  Micou  for  the  theological  seminaries  and  recruiting 
for  the  ministry;  W.  H.  Tinker  for  state  university  work;  . 
E.  H.  Kelsey  for  headquarters  duties.  David  R.  Porter 
has  acted  as  executive  secretary  of  the  Department. 

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The  work  in  Canada  is  in  charge  of  E.  H.  Clarke  under 
the  direction  of  the  Canadian  National  Council.  The 
secretaries  of  the  Department  cooperate  for  mission 
study  and  missionary  recruiting  with  the  Student  Volun¬ 
teer  Movement,  of  which  F.  P.  Turner  is  General  Secre¬ 
tary,  and  J.  L.  Murray  is  Educational  Secretary.  The 
Indian  School  work  has  been  under  the  direction  of  R.  D. 
Hall,  who  has  had  associated  with  him  this  year  Mc¬ 
Kinley  H.  Warren  as  part-time  assistant.  The  work  in 
Negro  schools  and  colleges  is  under  the  Colored  Men’s 
Department,  with  which  the  Student  Department  is  glad 
to  cooperate.  We  regret  to  report  the  death  of  W.  A. 
Hunton,  senior  secretary  of  the  Colored  Men’s  Depart¬ 
ment.  Mr.  Hunton  had  always  maintained  a  close  rela¬ 
tionship  with  student  work  and  had  made  his  friendly 
influence  and  consecrated  personality  felt  by  all  who 
knew  him.  The  secretaries  of  this  Department  for  stu¬ 
dent  work  have  been  C.  H.  Tobias  and  M.  W.  Johnson. 

The  Committee  on  Friendly  Relations  with  Foreign 
Students  continues  to  be  guided  by  Charles  D.  Hurrey,  as 
General  Secretary.  George  Irving  is  editor  of  “The 
North  American  Student,”  the  joint  publication  of  the 
men’s  and  women’s  movements  and  of  the  Student  Vol¬ 
unteer  Movement. 

War  conditions  have  made  necessary  several  adjust¬ 
ments.  W.  H.  Morgan  has  resigned  from  the  Depart¬ 
ment  to  take  up  army  Y.  M.  C.  A.  work  in  Mesapotamia ; 
F.  P.  Miller  has  enlisted  for  military  service;  H.  S. 
Elliott  and  R.  H.  Edwards  have  been  released  for  tem¬ 
porary  service  in  the  Bureau  of  Personnel  of  the  National 
War  Work  Council;  Dr.  M.  J.  Exner  is  leading  in  a 
special  campaign  of  sex  education  in  the  army  camps  in 
which  he  is  being  assisted  by  A.  M.  Trawick.  Practically 
all  the  secretaries  of  this  Department  have  given  some 

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time  at  least  to  work  in  various  relationships  to  the  Asso¬ 
ciation  work  in  the  army  camps,  several  of  them  giving 
their  entire  vacation  for  this  purpose. 

After  several  years  of  helpful  service  to  this  move¬ 
ment  in  various  capacities,  the  Rev.  Paul  Micou  has  re¬ 
signed  to  take  the  important  position  of  secretary  of  the 
Collegiate  Department  of  the  General  Board  of  Religious 
Education  of  the  Protestant  Episcopal  Church. 

Financial  Support 

The  financial  contributors  to  this  movement  are  as  a 
rule  silent  partners.  Without  their  constant  sympathy 
and  support,  however,  none  of  the  accomplishments  here 
reported,  nor  the  many  others  which  do  not  lend  them¬ 
selves  to  tabulation  and  report,  would  be  possible. 
Through  their  vision  and  sacrifice  they  are  really  partners 
in  this  significant  undertaking.  The  expenditures  for  the 
year  1916  provided  for  the  salaries  and  traveling  ex¬ 
penses  of  sixteen  secretaries,  the  expense  of  the  New 
York  headquarters  and  branch  offices  in  Kankakee  (Ill.)> 
Nashville  (Tenn.),  Los  Angeles  (Cal.),  Denver  (Colo.), 
and  Oklahoma  City  (Okla.)  as  follows: 

TABLE  I 


Secretaries’  Salaries  .  $39,098.04 

Traveling  Expenses  .  14,736.93 

Stenographers  and  Clerks .  9,014.09 

Printing  and  Stationery  and  Cultivation .  1,389.46 

Postage  and  Express .  2,169.27 

Telephone  and  Telegraph .  1,060.26 

Office  Rent .  819.00 

Office  Equipment  .  386.42 

Office  Supplies  .  1,134.79 

Special  Agents .  701.58 

Magazine  .  2,110.71 

Sex  Education  Lectures .  i,577-05 

Special  Conferences  .  889.56 


Totals  .  $75,087.16 

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The  following  table  is  an  analysis  of  the  sources  of  the 
income  to  meet  the  expenses  of  the  Department. 


TABLE  II 

Interest  .  $1,674.48 

Subscriptions  of  Conference  delegates .  11,097.05 

Subscriptions  of  other  friends .  57,316.46 

Subscriptions  of  College  Associations  .  4,319.30 

Miscellaneous  (Literature,  etc.) .  986.72 


$75>394*oi 

The  World’s  Student  Christian  Feder¬ 
ation 

The  relation  between  the  Student  Movement  in  this 
country  and  the  Federation  has  never  meant  so  much  to 
us  as  this  year.  In  the  first  place  there  has  been  a  grow¬ 
ing  recognition  of  the  rare  significance  of  the  fact  that 
the  ties  of  the  Federation  have  not  been  broken  by  the 
strain  of  the  war.  It  is  the  more  significant  when  we 
realize  that  this  can  be  said  of  no  other  movement  except 
possibly  the  foreign  mission  movement.  The  special 
campaign  to  secure  the  Friendship  Fund  for  the  prison¬ 
ers-of-war  has  been  wonderfully  used  to  make  vivid  our 
obligation  to  and  dependence  upon  the  student  move¬ 
ments  in  other  nations.  The  amount  of  money  raised  for 
this  fund,  small  as  it  is  compared  with  the  need,  is  in  a 
real  sense  a  testimonial  to  the  appreciation  of  American 
students  of  the  Federation. 

We  have  been  glad  to  have  messages  from  other  move¬ 
ments  brought  by  Robert  P.  Wilder,  who  has  come  to  this 
country  after  several  years’  service  as  one  of  the  secre¬ 
taries  of  the  British  Movement;  Frank  V.  Slack,  who  has 
been  on  furlough  from  his  work  among  Indian  students; 
Dr.  Mott,  who  had  an  opportunity  during  the  summer  of 
1916  to  have  personal  conferences  with  the  leaders  of  the 
Movements  in  several  of  the  European  countries ;  and  S. 

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J.  Chuaii,  Secretary  of  the  Chinese  Christian  Association, 
who  has  returned  to  us  after  several  months’  work  in 
China.  One  of  the  few  good  results  of  the'war  has  been 
the  increased  number  of  visitors  from  Mexico  and  Latin 
America,  C.  J.  Ewald,  the  National  Secretary  of  South 
America,  having  been  in  the  country  part  of  the  year.  It 
was  our  privilege  to  have  not  less  than  eighty-three 
Latin-American  delegates  in  the  summer  conferences  this 
year. 

Effects  of  the  War  on  the  Year’s  Work 

This  report  could  not  be  completed  without  further 
reference  to  the  effect  of  the  war  upon  the  Christian  life 
and  work  in  the  American  colleges.  The  most  obvious 
effect  has  been,  of  course,  the  gradual  drawing  away  of 
many  of  our  leading  workers.  Since  America’s  decision 
to  enter  the  war  in  April  fully  seventy  per  cent  of  our 
secretaries  have  left  for  some  kind  of  war  service. 

The  Friendship  Fund  has  been  one  of  the  most  stim¬ 
ulating  and  inspiring  experiences  in  the  life  of  the 
Movement.  It  owed  its  original  impulse  to  a  small  group 
of  secretaries  who  were  considering  their  need  of  having 
some  fellowship  with  the  sufferings  across  the  sea.  A 
tangible  result  of  their  meeting  was  the  gift  from  a 
score  of  men,  amounting  to  about  $2,500,  for  the  relief  of 
prisoners-of-war.  Following  this  it  was  decided  to  try 
to  secure  $100,000  for  the  prisoners  and  especially  for 
those  camps  which  included  students.  The  response  was 
so  spontaneous  that  the  goal  was  raised  to  $150,000.  Be¬ 
fore  the  year  was  over  it  was  found  that  actually  over 
$200,000  had  been  paid  in  for  this  and  kindred  needs  by 
the  men  and  women  students  of  the  United  States.  Not 
only  did  participation  in  this  fund  give  many  a  chance 
to  share  in  meeting  the  needs  of  our  brothers  in  Europe 

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and  make  the  Federation  a  reality  in  our  thinking,  but  in 
many  places  it  resulted  in  kindling  evangelistic  fires  and 
giving  a  marked  impetus  to  missionary  zeal.  On  the  basis 
of  this  experience  and  in  spite  of  depleted  forces' the  stu¬ 
dent  leaders  at  the  recent  Niagara  Falls  Conference  de¬ 
cided  to  attempt  this  year  a  much  larger  sum. 

In  many  Associations  there  has  been  a  marked  tendency 
to  simplify  and  intensify  the  work.  This  can  be  directly 
traced  to  processes  of  thinking  connected  with  the  war, 
its  causes  and  probable  results.  The  Association  leaders 
have  seen  the  necessity  of  abandoning  secondary  activities 
and  with  great  urgency  stressing  the  essentials  of  the 
Christian  life. 

Students  have  never  been  so  thoughtful  as  now.  They 
are  realizing  that  the  supposed  foundations  of  society 
have  been  shifting  sands.  They  are  discovering  that 
formal  religion  is  in  no  way  able  to  combat  selfishness 
and  greed,  suspicion  and  hate.  They  have  come  to  see 
how  many  seeds  of  war  there  are  in  modern  social  life. 
They  recognize  that  as  long  as  the  spirit  of  redemptive 
love  is  not  more  actively  and  powerfully  at  work  in 
American  colleges,  in  industry,  and  commerce,  they  have 
little  right  to  sit  in  judgment  upon  those  who  are  respon¬ 
sible  for  the  spirit  of  war  in  the  relations  of  diplomacy 
and  international  affairs.  To  render  the  highest  service  to 
the  nation  now,  and  to  prepare  now  for  service  in  the 
even  more  searching  days  ahead  when  this  nation  must 
lead  in  the  reconstruction  of  a  new  world  brotherhood 
according  to  the  mind  of  Christ;  such  tasks  call  the  men 
of  our  American  colleges  to  clear  thinking  and  the  most 
unselfish  devotion. 


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William  D.  Murray 
William  M.  Birks 
Bishop  William  F.  McDowell 
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Pres.  W.  Douglas  Mackenzie 
Prof.  G.  A.  Johnston  Ross 
Bishop  Thomas  Nicholson 
Burke  Baker 


ADVISORY  COMMITTEE 


President  R.  A.  Falconer 
Robert  H.  Gardiner 
Chancellor  J.  H.  Kirkland 
Professor  J.  W.  Roe 
W.  E.  Sweet 
Rev.  H.  W.  Bell 


Rt.  Rev.  P.  M.  Rhinelander 
President  J.  W.  Singmaster 
President  C.  A.  Barbour 
Professor  N.  E.  Richardson 
William  F.  Snow,  M.D. 
Professor  M.  A.  Bigelow 


